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Brokaw Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$273kInternational$236kEducation$226kHealth$107kPhilanthropy$94kEnvironment$87kAnimals$54kCivil Rights$48kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION$10,000
TURTLE CONSERVANCY$10,000
LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
THE THACHER SCHOOL$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO FIREFIGHTERS CANCER PREVENTION FOUNDATION$5,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY$2,500
THE EAST HARLEM SCHOOL$1,000
MOVEMBER FOUNDATION$1,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$1,000
ACT FOUNDATION$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$1,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION$1,000
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE$1,000
THE BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$1,000
PROJECT FIND$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%NEIGHBORS LINK: $1k → 9%CHIPS: $1k → 20%A HOUSE ON BEEKMAN: $1k → 28%LIVINGSTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%NEIGHBORS LINK: $1k → 9%HOT BREAD KITCHEN: $1k → 17%NEIGHBORS LINK: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
OH
CA
UT
VA
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$938k · 38 repeat orgs$264k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
53

Total granted

$938k
$239k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+47%

Still filing today

84%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHealthInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +81%
  • RH
    ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue +49%
  • MI
    MALOTO INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $81k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • PC
    PARK CITIES QUAIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $43k · revenue +93%
  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +64%
  • John Carroll University
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
11
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
12
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Act Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Community Health CentersGovernment Accountability R…Cancer Support OrganizationsClassical Music EnsemblesHomeless Services & ShelterPregnancy Support ServicesUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Animal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Arts OrganizationsPublic University Foundatio…Veteran Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Education Equity LeadershipFallen First Responder Supp…Land Conservation Organizat…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%45%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/80
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,680

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 99 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/78
Grantees still filing
59/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

International Rescue Committee INC — $220,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Com…Equality Now Inc — $20,000 · InternationalEquality Now IncHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $10,000 · International+3 more — $9,500 · InternationalWNETORG — $66,500 · OtherWNETORGTHE DALTON SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND — $32,500 · OtherTHE DALTON SCHOOL ANNUAL FUNDINTERNATIONAL WOMENS MEDIA FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherLAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherSAFE & SOUND — $12,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY — $12,000 · OtherSan Francisco Fire Fighters Cancer Prevention Foundation — $30,000 · OtherSan Francisco Fire Fighters Cance…Livingston Healthcare Foundation — $20,000 · OtherLivingston Healthcare FoundationCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $16,000 · Other+47 more — $134,750 · Other+47 moreAmerican Museum of Natural History — $142,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum …INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DO…LANDMARK WEST INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLANDMARK WEST IN…NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC …+2 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMALOTO INC — $81,000 · EducationMALOTO INCJohn Carroll University — $25,000 · EducationJohn Carroll Un…Spelman College — $10,000 · EducationSpelman CollegeThe Thacher School Inc — $10,000 · EducationThe Thacher Sch…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $7,000 · EducationBROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL — $6,000 · Education+8 more — $25,000 · Education+8 moreROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $90,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD …BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyBOCA GRANDE…THE CLEAR FUND — $5,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $3,000 · PhilanthropyCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $11,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentREDFORD CENTER INC — $5,000 · Environment+3 more — $4,500 · EnvironmentPARK CITIES QUAIL INC — $42,500 · AnimalsTURTLE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 · Animals+1 more — $1,000 · Animals
International$259,500Other$353,750Arts & Culture$177,500Education$164,000Philanthropy$123,000Environment$71,500Animals$53,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $220,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $142,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMALOTO INC — $81,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetSan Francisco Fire Fighters Cancer Prevention Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJohn Carroll University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLivingston Healthcare Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEquality Now Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE CONSERVANCY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSpelman College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANDMARK WEST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOceanic Society Expeditions — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC DISTRICTS COUNCIL INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COALITION FOR SHELTER INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIXTH JUDICIAL COURT CASAGAL PROGRAM INC — $6,250 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetBROOME STREET ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOTRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARINA ORTH FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS LINK CORP — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER AT WEST PARK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTHUR ASHE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN HEALTH INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marin Community Found…Jewish Communal FundThe San Francisco Fou…National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…Morgan Stanley Global…First Interstate Banc…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…ImpactassetsincAmerican Endowment Fo…The Ayco Charitable F…
Marin Community FoundationCA13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Impactassetsinc · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Brokaw Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Ecotrust — 14% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Brokaw Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brokaw Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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